§8711 Sense of Congress on Enforcement of Multilateral Sanctions Regime and Expansion and Implementation of Sanctions Laws

Summary

The United States must pressure Iran to stop trying to build nuclear weapons and to stop other dangerous actions by using economic sanctions, diplomacy, and military planning and options. This approach follows President Obama’s 2012 pledge to do whatever is needed to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. The United States must quickly enforce existing international sanctions and fully apply any new sanctions. To do that, the President and the people he picks, including the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, and senior intelligence officials, must watch closely. The government should use special emergency economic powers, move staff and money to Treasury, State, Commerce, and intelligence agencies to enforce the rules, and work more with other countries. It should also consider adding sanctions on energy services, insurance/reinsurance, shipping, and Iranian banks that act as middlemen. Finally, the U.S. must stop attempts to evade sanctions by monitoring telecom, internet, and satellite providers, other financial firms or businesses not yet targeted, and by checking Iran’s energy, security, financial, and telecom sectors for gaps and fixing them quickly.